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Ralph Johnson is on the list of [[InvitedAuthors]] whom [[Ward Cunningham]] first solicited to contribute to [[WikiWikiWeb]] because they were interested in [[PatternLanguage]].

==Biography==
Ralph E. Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is co-author of the influential Computer science textbook, Design Patterns, or GoF book.

Ralph was an early pioneer in the Smalltalk community and is a continued supporter of the language. He has held several executive roles at the ACM Object-Oriented Programing, Systems, Languages and Applications conference, OOPSLA and attends every year. He initiated the popular OOPSLA Design Fest workshop.

==Links==
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Johnson
*http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RalphJohnson

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